Making bonfire night special/where to buy fireworks

[Peachypips78]

Hi all,

In the spirit of having things to look forward to, what are you doing for bonfire night? I hate Halloween so always make bonfire night great.

Also- where do you get ok fireworks from?

Sorry I should have said that's the case in much of the eu.

You might be able to buy fireworks in France but legislation is strict:
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Rappel autorisations nécessaires*

• Pour un feu d'artifice contenant uniquement des produits de groupe K1, K2 ou K3 et dont la quantité de matière active est inférieure à 35 kg, il faut obligatoirement :

demander l'autorisation à la mairie avertir les pompiers de la date et du lieu de tir. si le tir se déroule sur un lieu privé, demander l'autorisation au propriétaire du terrain

You need permission from the town hall and you have to notify the fire brigade.

@gingganggooleywotsit

nimby moaning minnies!

Did you see my post from yesterday? I am neither a misery guts nor a moaning minnie. I do however have a phobia of fire and the non stop bangs of fireworks from as soon as it is dark to around 11pm for days in a row which happens where I live absolutely fucking terrifies me. I have had CBT for the anxiety caused by my phobia but all the CBT, distraction and relaxation techniques in the world don't help when the bangs go on for hours with only a few seconds in between each. Last year when it got to late in the evening I was actually saying "please stop" out loud (to nobody - I live alone) every time another one went off.

An organised display, on a specific day, for a known length of time and well away from housing I could cope with. Every Tom Dick and Harry letting off fireworks for days in end in small gardens in the middle of a built up residential area I can't.

@gingganggooleywotsit

nimby moaning minnies!

I tell that to the farmer who had stillborn calves & the lady whose horse had to be pts because of a broken leg shall I gingganggooleywotsit? That they're just nimby-ist? I can do things to mitigate any distress to my household pets, those who have animals that are largely outdoors/ in barns don't have as many options for back garden displays, that can go on for almost the whole period between late October & NYE. And as I've said wildlife suffers too.

@gingganggooleywotsit I’d rather be a moaning nimby than an inconsiderate and irresponsible fuckwit

@I8toys turn it into no contact with others and non existent bangs and it will be like mine 😂

That's the issue, it's not one weekend is it? It's weeks and weeks.
I'd imagine most of us that think they should be banned would be ok with one or two designated nights a year. It's constant though, relentless, and we just get called nimbly moaning minnies? Try looking outside of your own selfish little bubble once in a while.

It's grim, OP. All the municipal fireworks displayed have been cancelled - even the little one the Scouts hold at the community centre. And the Council's sent out leaflets telling evertyone not to have bonfires nor fireworks in their gardens because of the pressure on the fire service.

We'd saved all our garden prunings in a dry shelter so we could have a private one in the firepit but aren't allowed to now.

Get sparklers. Have a fire pit fire. Don't have bloody fireworks

All the big displays here have been canceled as well - but we've had nothings asking people not to have anything at home - wonder if that's coming.

We've got coal and a popper fit pit - and it's on gravel with nothing near to burn - but suppose that's not true of everyone.

We have been told not trick or treating as area is in lock down - that one doesn't affect us as we do baking and scary movies anyway.

Please don't, so dangerous and not just for the people setting them off. Do you really want to be responsible for a rogue firework flying through a child's bedroom window and killing them?

Just don't!

Fireworks should be banned - especially this year as no doubt every Tom, Dick and Harry will decide to do their own display.

Don’t be a firework twat OP.

proper fire pit - I'm in the middle of some typing practise at the minute clearly I need to do more work.

Oh God. Just checked and see that November 5th is Thursday. So the firework twat parties will be Thursday Friday Saturday and possibly Sunday too.

And for 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after too, FFS.

Can’t Boris ban the sale of fireworks this year on the basis they’ll encourage family mixing. Or maybe the smoke will exacerbate Covid symptoms etc? Come on Boris

Firework tests have been active where I live since the last weekend of September. They're going as I speak. Kids setting them off in the streets and thinking it's funny when the locals complain about their distressed children and their distressed pets.

One whacked off my window last at 11.50 pm. People are selling them on Facebook to whoever.

I'm dreading this year with the increase of 'private' (Ha) displays that's bound to happen. Anyone thinking of doing this please reconsider. My dog and many other pets and people are fucking terrified. As he gets older I think he's going to have a heart attack one of these nights and that's after the prescribed diazepam. It creates an unnecessary nuisance and people are already suffering enough indoors without bangs every minute. I wouldn't mind so much if it was one night but it really isn't.

I'm not anti fireworks either.

I love a good organised display. If I've learnt anything the last few months it's that quite a lot of our population shouldn't be allowed to set off explosives in residential gardens.

And many of these people will be drinking alcohol too before setting them off and it's never just one night. It's the week before the actual 5th and the week after but this year it's the month and half before and even more people will be doing it, people who'd usually go to professionally organised ones who've likely never lit a firework in their life will joining the usual lot who set them off in residential areas.

We're having sparklers, going to make toffee apples and toasted marshmallows, and I've bought some indoor fireworks as I remember them being crap but amusingly so from my childhood, and I want DC to experience them at least once.

Maybe we could have just one year off from Fireworks
I am dreading all the private displays, unsafe, selfish and unpredictable.
Just my thoughts.

We've had them going off locally in the past two nights already.

People who let fireworks off in their gardens are completely selfish and antisocial. Don't do it.

It’s about time fireworks were banned for use at home, it’s too dangerous and antisocial. If this year has taught us anything it’s that a large percentage of the population are selfish, inconsiderate and lacking in basic common sense.

But some of the ideas on here sound lovely - I think we need to try and make life as nice as we can at the moment but for me that wouldn’t include fireworks at home 🤷🏻‍♀️

I don't celebrate it. My view is that it should be organised displays only, and only on certain nights given the impact on people with certain conditions and animals.

So not celebrated this year.

In any case we condemn the wrong person- it should be Robert Catesby who is the effigy, and a lot money would have been raised over the years for 'a bob for the Bob' instead of ' a penny for the guy'. Strange tradition anyway- we celebrate the failure to kill someone who mother and son were executed by the state, and the Civil War would have just been held 35 years earlier.

Just please don't. I anticipate that bonfire night and idiots with fireworks are going to be even more horrendous than usual this year.
Fat chance of it ever happening but please consider other people and their pets.

If this year has taught us anything it’s that a large percentage of the population are selfish, inconsiderate and lacking in basic common sense.

Quite!